For decades, there’s been an industry that has played a dangerous game with the American people, an industry that has put profit before health. It ran deceptive campaigns, misled policymakers even when under oath, and paid for biased research to create confusion. The longer the truth was withheld, the more people ingested their products unaware of the damage it was causing to their bodies. Regulations that could have protected the public were delayed, and the industry continues making potentially dangerous claims about the safety and “reduced-risk” nature of its newer products. But we must ask ourselves, can we really take what this industry says at face value? Its track record of deception and putting profit before health suggests we cannot.
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